ANIMAL GENETICS

Animal genetics is a branch of genetics that studies heredity and variation chiefly in farm animals but also in domestic and wild animals. It is based on general genetic principles and concepts, and it mainly uses the hybrid, cytological, population, ontogenetic, mathematical-statistical, and twin methods of general genetics. The book provides a comprehensive introduction to genetic principles and their applications in animal breeding and useful for those new to the field of animal genetics this book also covering a diverse array of topics ranging from population and quantitative genetics.